On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> [redirecting to haskell-cafe]
>> Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009 00:25 schrieben Sie:
>> Hi Wolfgang,
>>>> I was wondering if I can use FLTK as GUI backend for Grapefruit?
>> This should be possible in principal. It just could be that my assumptions
> about how widgets are created and composed were too tight so that
> Grapefruit’s general interface doesn’t fit FLTK. In this case, please just
> tell me and I will try to make the interface more general.
Ok, great I ll have to use them then I will see and know what improvement
is needed.
>> I believe for this to make it happen, I would have to output FLTK's C++
>> into C then create bindings for Haskell (via FFI). Is that doable or an
>> quite tall order?
>> Recently, a student of mine has written a program which generates a Haskell Qt
> binding fully automatically from Qt header files. The generated binding
> consists of three layers. The first layer is C++ code which reexports Qt’s
> functionality as a pure C interface. The C interface is ugly for humans and
> not type safe (because C doesn’t know classes). The second layer consists of
> a couple of FFI declarations. The third layer is Haskell code which provides
> a nice interface similar to the original C++ interface.
>> I still have to get the source code of the binding generator from that student
> but I hope this will happen soon. I want to publish it then on the web. It
> hope that it is possible to reuse this binding generator for other C++
> libraries.
That would be very helpful, I ll be looking forward.
> Best wishes,
> Wolfgang
Jamie